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I'm getting ahead of myself since I need to spend some time bonding with what just arrived.
And I treasure every guitar I have. Not at the point of being weighed down by them, had a little trouble finding closet space for all of them but figured that out too. So it's all good.
As for the HJS, I'll find out why Joe had to have one one of these days.
Big
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07-28-2016 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
Originally Posted by Stringswinger
Originally Posted by BigMikeinNJ
You don't NEED an HJS. You have many guitars that will be just as good. The only thing you don't have is.. Johnny's Signature. And he used a BOLD sharpie too... Its almost like he was signing all of them for you!
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No I was getting way ahead of myself. Being I have the Unity, Excel, Super Patrick and Golden Eagle I have a lot of exploring to do. Sometime in the next 45 days or so my next Mr Wu comes in also.
Did get the Golden Eagle tuned up and played it a while, wow it is so gorgeous in tone and looks. Easy to play too. I can see why Patrick favored it. Under the flood lights in the office while I am playing it the flame in the sides and neck are quite distracting. LOL. Just really great attention to detail.
SCORED a case of my favorite brandy. I fell in love (LUFT) with my Culinary History instructor some 23 years ago, this woman talked food and for me it was like a woman talking dirty to me. She had a fondness for Calvados, a special apple brandy from a region in Normandy. Not any cheap stuff but oh so easy to keep sipping on. I found a place called Wine Chateau in Jersey that ships. Got a case at a significant discount. So tomorrow night if it's raining I'm gonna sit on my porch and sip and celebrate this all being done.
Big
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We all rejoice with you Mikey !!! Funny how life is. Just a few months ago life was slapping you around.
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VINNY
Yeah a year ago Life seemed pretty damn harsh. But since I got all my guys placed and got in here things have progressively improved. As for the guitar collection let me address that: I had the Mr Wu guitars in Jersey and a few other guitars I really liked for one reason or another. And since I got here I got a '79 GB10nt that I am very fond of, a '90s GB100, some very top notch BC Rich acoustics (a '68 and a mid-'70s) and a few other things. And it was very nice to finally get back into the GB World. But these instruments and the other really good things that have happened to me TRULY make me feel Very Blessed, I was just playing some oldies on the Excel copy and boy I have the amp and the acoustic volume pretty well matched, it's so great...
As for the Amatos, Fran got a brand new Hyundai Sonata in this green color she is very happy with. I believe I will be buying the wine burst Golden Eagle (despite the nay sayers) because I sorta got fond of it while I had it in hand. The blonde Golden Eagle that was Patrick's, man I grow fonder of that every time I play it. Hardly played the Unity, but it's up on the rotation next for the rest of the day.
You know my dearly departed Ma used to say the same thing to me over and over in my life. She said "Mike, you stepped in shit but you always come out smelling like a rose". And I would defer to her that it wasn't luck, but maybe a little karma and a lot of hard work and networking with people who knew they could count on me. The fundamental things my parents had always thought me: be honest, work hard, look after the other guy. And from the street I learned to keep my mouth shut and never rat on my friends (in any way).
Again thanks to all the well wishers and thanks for the compliments on the guitars, really Heritage and Patrick deserve all those compliments. I'm a real Heritage Nut Bag now. LOL...
Big
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BigMike,
Don't you love it when you get the acoustic and electric volume matched on an archtop? I really enjoy this with a guitar with a floating pickup. _That_ tone is completely seductive, IMO. Start playing some of the charts that Joe DeNisco does so well--with that kind of tone--and you can see the midnight sun.
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Welcome to Club Nutbag. We love new members.
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Lol
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Originally Posted by Greentone
Saturday greetings from Club Nutbag, River Forest. LOL. Yeah using my Fuchs modded Music Man HD130 at half power with a slanted amp stand I was sitting across the room on the bed but over to the right of the amp, got that acoustic volume matched to the amp volume and I SWEAR I was getting reverb out of the sound holes !!! It's Great.
Cleaning lady is here today and It's Unity Day, all day... You guys posting ads over at Archtop.Com DAMN YOU !!! I was seriously looking at a Epiphone Emperor, this beast. Reminds me of a guitar I old tech in California, David Tupper, lent me for a while.
https://www.archtop.com/ac_46emp_714.html
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Originally Posted by Greentone
Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
Originally Posted by BigMikeinNJ
Save some money big man. You might need to eat at some point..
JD
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Hey Mike....I know Dave Tupper. Great guitar tech. Trouble is he is always overwhelmed with work. Lucky if you get your guitar back in a month. If you need a fret job he is worth the wait.
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I told you not to send that Wineburst back! I recall Patrick suggesting its tone was exquisite. I'd forget all about that silly cosmetic stinger if I owned it...I mean, just look at that burst. AND Golden Eagle single humbuckers aren't an easy find. I searched for 3 years and never came across one for sale.
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I confirm: GE single set pub is outstanding! Huge congrats. Man, you're on a roll ... amazing! Enjoy each and every one of them!
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Dave Tupper is a friend of mine since '88. Still got his digits memorized. I didn't live or work THAT far from him so any time I was baking biscotti I'd head over toward Alameda De Las Pulgas and see him. Love that guy. He sure has some fine guitars coming through his shop. A real stand up guy.
I really am very in love with my blonde Golden Eagle single set pickup... Actually I was pretty stunned to find all these beauties hadn't been swept up by someone...
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Mike I hope you have some Virtuoso guitar polish. Those beauties need to be rubbed down with the best only. Trust me their is nothing better to put on nitro lacquer.
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Trust the man. He knows what he's talking about!
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You know, if there if there is one measely thing I don't like about the HJS is the size of the FHoles. They may contribute to the sound, I don't know.. But it seems like Herman Brice didn't care for them either because he got the nice f-holes on his.
Tootie has the cutaway and the pickguard in the wrong side of the guitar..
Originally Posted by Marty Grass
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Tootie is wise!
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Originally Posted by Joe DeNisco
I think it's a mental block in your head because you're used to the other...I don't hear or see a difference, but I'm not focused on it...I'm mesmerized by the headstock
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Really, I showed my cleaning lady the Unity, Golden Eagle, Excel and Super Patrick and her hand went straight to the lovely MOP inlays on each of them. She hardly speaks any english but her "OH !!" says it all. She doesn't know squat about guitars but she sure knows stunning when she sees it !!
Big
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2b, I actually love the headstock. The holes though.. Yeesh..
JD
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I miss the 70's. It was so perfectly simple back then. Good times.
thanks 2b
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Originally Posted by Joe DeNisco
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Ibanez archtop with 0.010 Thomastik strings and...
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